350 pages 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: the nature of rhetoric -- Techniques of persuasion in Greek literature before 400 B.C. -- Early rhetorical theory, Corax to Aristotle. Corax and Tisias ; Gorgias ; Thrasymachus ; Other rhetoricians ; Isocrates ; Plato's Phaedrus ; Theodectes ; The development of Aristotle's Rhetoric ; Aristotle on invention ; The third book of Aristotle's Rhetoric ; The Rhetorica ad Alexandrum -- The Attic orators. Judicial Oratory. Antiphon, Lysias, Isaeus, Andocides, Trial of Socrates ; Epideictic oratory. Funeral orations, Festival orations, Sophistic oratory, Isocrates ; Deliberative oratory ; Demosthenes ; Aeschines ; The lesser orators of the later fourth century. Apollodorus, Lycurgus, Hyperides, Dinarchus -- Hellenistic rhetoric to the arrival in Rome of Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Theophrastus ; Demetrius ; The stoics ; Other philosophical schools ; Asianism ; Hermagoras ; The quarrel between rhetoric and philosophy ; Atticism -- Appendix: The introduction to On the ancient orators by Dionysius of Halicarnassus

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